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HR 2514 118th Congress House

Public Service Integrity Act

Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a uniform 5-year post-employment ban on all lobbying by former Members of Congress, to establish a uniform … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a uniform 5-year post-employment ban on all lobbying by former Members of Congress, to establish a uniform 2-year post-employment ban on all lobbying by former officers and employees of Congress, to lower the income threshold for applying such ban to former officers and employees of Congress, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 6, 2023 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 6, 2023
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Public Service Integrity Act

This bill expands the post-employment ban on lobbying by former Senators, former Members of the House of Representatives, and certain former congressional officers and employees.

Currently, former Senators are banned from lobbying for two years, while former Representatives are banned for one year. The bill increases the ban to five years.

Additionally, current law bans lobbying by former House and Senate officers and staff of Member offices, committees, and other legislative offices for one year. The bill increases the ban to two years.

The bill also makes more former congressional employees subject to the post-employment lobbying ban by lowering the income threshold at which the ban applies. Currently, the ban applies to any employee who, while employed by a Member of Congress, earned more than 75% of that Member's basic rate of pay. The bill lowers that threshold to 50% of the employing Member's rate of pay.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 414 Reintroduction of Public Service Integrity Act
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2514: Public Service Integrity Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-2514/
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"H.R. 2514: Public Service Integrity Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-2514/.
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H.R. 2514, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-2514/.
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[H.R. 2514: Public Service Integrity Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-2514/)
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